There are two ways of reading the fact that most Conservative MPs didn’t vote at all. The first is that support for the pro-Palestinian cause, to use a form of shorthand, on the Tory benches is low. The second is that support for Israel is slipping away – in support of which claim the low number of Conservative MPs opposing the motion will be cited.

My take is the latter. It may also be that many MPs concluded, as I argued yesterday, that the case for recognition has not been made.